ice-cold

See also: ice cold

English

Alternative forms

• icecold, ice cold

Etymology

From Middle English *is-cold, from Old English īsċeald; equivalent to ice +‎ cold. Cognate with Saterland Frisian ieskoold (“ice-cold”), West Frisian iiskâld (“ice-cold”), Dutch ijskoud (“ice-cold”), Afrikaans yskoud (“ice-cold”), German Low German ieskold (“ice-cold”), German eiskalt (“ice-cold”), Yiddish אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt, “ice-cold”), Danish iskold (“ice-cold”), Swedish iskall (“ice-cold”), Norwegian iskald (“ice-cold”), Faroese ísakaldur (“ice-cold”), Icelandic ískaldur (“ice-cold”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈaɪskəʊld/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Adjective

ice-cold (comparative more ice-cold, superlative most ice-cold)

2. (idiomatic, loosely) Very cold.

   Synonyms: cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, freezing, frigid, frosty

   Antonyms: boiling hot, steaming hot, piping hot, baking hot, smoking hot; see also Thesaurus:hot

   Coordinate terms: cool, chilly, chilled, lukewarm, tepid

   Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold

   I'm going to put my coat back on — I'm ice-cold again!

4. (figurative) Of a person, look, or behavior: without emotion; distant; (sometimes) silently disapproving.

   Synonyms: cold as ice, icy, frigid, stone cold, frosty

   Coordinate terms: cool, chilly, lukewarm, tepid

   I don't know why she gave me an ice-cold look — I had thought that the topic of conversation was totally innocuous.

6. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ice,‎ cold: as cold as ice or nearly so (close to a freezing point).

   Synonyms: cold as ice, icy, freezing cold, freezing, frigid, frosty

   Antonyms: boiling hot, steaming hot, piping hot, baking hot, smoking hot; see also Thesaurus:hot

   Hypernym: cold

   Coordinate terms: cool, chilly, chilled, lukewarm, tepid

   Near-synonyms: stone cold, cold as a well-digger's arse; see also Thesaurus:cold

   ice-cold beer here

   It's best to serve this dessert while it's still ice-cold.

   • 1966, The Kinks, Sunny Afternoon:

     Now I'm sitting here
     Sipping on my ice-cold beer
     Lazing on a sunny afternoon.

   • 2017 January 12, Jesse Hassenger, “A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks”, in The Onion AV Club‎^[1]:

     When Tripp holds his red soda like it’s an ice-cold beer, it probably isn’t actually Mountain Dew Code Red, but it might as well be.

Translations

as cold as ice

• Bulgarian: ле́деностуден (lédenostuden)
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 凍冰冰 / 冻冰冰 (dung³ bing¹ bing¹)

  Mandarin: 冰冷 (zh) (bīnglěng)

• Czech: ledový (cs) m, chladný jako led m
• Dutch: ijskoud (nl)
• Finnish: jääkylmä (fi)
• French: (objects) glacé (fr), (weather) glacial (fr)
• German: eiskalt (de)
• Hungarian: jéghideg (hu)
• Icelandic: ískaldur (is)
• Latin: gelidus
• Norwegian: iskald (no)
• Old English: isceald
• Plautdietsch: iesskolt
• Polish: lodowaty (pl) m, lodowata f
• Portuguese: gélido (pt) m, gelado (pt) m
• Russian: ледяно́й (ru) (ledjanój), холо́дный как лёд (xolódnyj kak ljod)
• Spanish: gélido (es), helado (es)
• Swedish: iskall (sv)
• Turkish: buz gibi
• Yiddish: אײַזקאַלט (ayzkalt)

distant

• Czech: chladný jako led m
• Finnish: jääkylmä (fi)
• French: glacial (fr)
• Norwegian: iskald (no)
• Portuguese: gélido (pt) m, frio (pt) m
• Swedish: iskall (sv)

Noun

ice-cold (plural ice-colds)

1. (Australia, slang) A cold serving of beer.

   Synonyms: cold one, frosty one

   • (Can we date this quote by John Romeril and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     […] to sink a few ice colds […]